1924 in radio

	… 1914 ; 1915 ; 1916 ; 1917 ; 1918 ; 1919 ; 1920 ; ; 1921 ; 1922 ; 1923 ; 1924 ; 1925 ; 1926 ; 1927 ; ; 1928 ; 1929 ; 1930 ; 1931 ; 1932 ; 1933 ; 1934 … ;
	In music 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 In film 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927
	Art ; Archaeology ; Architecture ; Literature ; Music ; Philosophy ; Science ; +...

Last updated November 15, 2023

1924 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1924.

Events

1 January – The United Kingdom Meteorological Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast, at this time called Weather Shipping.^[1]
5 January – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast of a religious service from a church (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with Rev. Dick Sheppard).
15 January – The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London.^[2]
5 February – Hourly Greenwich Time Signal from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom is broadcast for the first time.^[3]
8 February – John Joseph Carty, vice-president at American Telephone & Telegraph Company, speaks on the first nationwide radio hookup in the United States, between New York's WEAF, Washington, D.C.'s WCAP and Providence's WJAR. He is heard by an estimated fifty million people.
12 February – President of the United States Calvin Coolidge makes the first presidential political speech on radio. Broadcast from New York City, it is carried by five stations. It is listened to by an estimated five million people.
2 March – MIRAG, the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk Aktien-Gesellschaft (Central German Broadcasting Co. Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Leipzig in Germany.
28 March – First British Broadcasting Company broadcast from Plymouth (station 5PY).
30 March – The Deutsche Stunde in Bayern GmbH (German Hour in Bavaria Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Munich in Germany.
1 April – SWR, the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst A.G (South-west German Broadcasting Service Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
23 April – First broadcast by King George V of the United Kingdom, opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium.^[4]
2 May – NORAG, the Nordische Rundfunk Aktien-Gesellschaft (Northern Broadcasting Co. Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Hamburg in Germany.
12 May – SÜRAG, the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Aktien-Gesellschaft (South German Broadcasting Co. Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Stuttgart in Germany.
19 May – The British Broadcasting Company first broadcasts cellist Beatrice Harrison apparently duetting live with a wild nightingale in a Surrey garden;^[5] not until 2022 is it admitted that the 'bird' was probably a siffleur (professional whistler).^[6]
26 May – SFAG, the Schlesische Funkstunde Aktien-Gesellschaft (Silesian Radio Hour Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Breslau in Germany (modern-day Wrocław in Poland).
4 June – The British Broadcasting Company first broadcasts Henry Hall (bandleader), from the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.
10 June – ORAG, the Ostmarken-Rundfunk Aktien-Gesellschaft (Eastern Marches Broadcasting Co. Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Königsberg in Germany (modern-day Kaliningrad in Russia).
2 August – The Deutsche Stunde in Bayern opens its second station, in Nuremberg.
15 August – The British Broadcasting Company's Hull relay station, 6KH, goes on air.
27 August – Unione radiofonica italiana (URI, a predecessor of RAI), Italy's first licensed broadcasting company, is formed in Turin with backing from the Marconi Company.
14 September – 2BE Belfast, operated by the British Broadcasting Company, opens as the first official radio station in Northern Ireland.
15 September – Inauguration of Radio Agen in south-west France; the station is privately owned but supported by the département of Lot-et-Garonne.
6 October – URI begins regular broadcasting from station 1-RO in Rome.
10 October – WEFAG, the Westdeutsche Funkstunde Aktien-Gesellschaft (West German Radio Hour Ltd), begins radio transmissions from Münster in Germany.
14 November – Station EAJ-1 Radio Barcelona, the first radio station to receive an official licence from the Spanish government, begins regular broadcasting.
15 November – Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging (NCRV) is established in the Netherlands.
30 November – NORAG opens its second station, in Bremen.
1 October – RAVAG, the Radio-Verkehrs-Aktien-Gesellschaft (Radio Communication Co. Ltd) – a collaboration between government and private industry – is given responsibility for all radio broadcasting in Austria.
12 December – The British Broadcasting Company's Swansea relay station in Wales, 5SX, goes on air.

Debuts

12 February – The Eveready Hour debuts on WEAF. It is considered the world's first commercially sponsored variety program.
20 December – First broadcast of the Norwegian children's radio programme Lørdagsbarnetimen ("Saturday children's hour") – on NRK radio, ending in 2010.

Births

11 February – Douglas Smith, English radio announcer (d. 1972)
23 April – Norman Painting, English actor (d. 2009)
1 May – Dennis Main Wilson, English broadcast comedy producer (d. 1997)
12 May – Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
21 August – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
15 November – Mike Raven, born (Austin) Churton Fairman, English DJ, actor and sculptor (d. 1997)

Related Research Articles

The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Licensed by the British General Post Office, its original office was located on the second floor of Magnet House, the GEC buildings in London and consisted of a room and a small antechamber.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Broadcast network</span> Form of centralized broadcasting

A terrestrial network is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source. For example, ABCTooltip American Broadcasting Company (U.S.), CBC/Radio-CanadaTooltip Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada), the BBCTooltip British Broadcasting Corporation (UK), the ABCTooltip Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia), ARDTooltip ARD (broadcaster) (Germany), KBSTooltip Korean Broadcasting System, and NHK (Japan) are TV networks that provide programming for local terrestrial television station affiliates to air using signals that can be picked up by the home television sets of local viewers. Networks generally, but not always, operate on a national scale; that is, they cover an entire country.

Österreichischer Rundfunk is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on pay-TV and via terrestrial overspill since the 1980s.

ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of a joint television network.

WFAN is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station serves the New York metropolitan area while its 50,000-watt clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the eastern United States and Canada. WFAN's studios are located in the Hudson Square neighborhood of lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WFAN is simulcast over WFAN-FM, and is available online via Audacy.

The Gliwice Radio Tower is a transmission tower in the Szobiszowice district of Gliwice, Upper Silesia, Poland.

The Berliner Rundfunk (BERU) was a radio station set in East Germany. It had a political focus and discussed events in East Berlin. Today it is a commercial radio station broadcast with the name "Berliner Rundfunk 91.4".

Bayerischer Rundfunk, shortened to BR, is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany.

Norddeutscher Rundfunk, commonly shortened to NDR, is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. NDR is a member of the ARD organisation.

Radio Bremen, shortened to RB is Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster and the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. With its headquarters sited in Bremen, Radio Bremen is a member of the consortium of German public broadcasting organizations, ARD.

Deutschlandsender, abbreviated DLS or DS, was one of the longest-established radio broadcasting stations in Germany. The name was used between 1926 and 1993 to denote a number of powerful stations designed to achieve all-Germany coverage.

Sender Freies Berlin was the ARD public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 1990 and for Berlin as a whole from German reunification until 30 April 2003. On 1 May 2003 it merged with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 to 31 December 1955. Until 1954, it was also responsible for broadcasting in West Berlin. NWDR was a founder member of the consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany, the ARD.

The Broadcasting Company of America (BCA) was a short-lived subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). It was formed in May 1926 in order to consolidate AT&T's radio station and network operations into a single organization. However, just two months later AT&T announced that the subsidiary was being sold to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). This sale took place on November 1, 1926, and RCA reorganized the BCA assets to form the core of National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) network operations, including its "Red Network".

The year 1926 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

1923 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1923.

The year 1945 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

The year 1925 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.

The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933.

References

↑ "Fact sheet No. 8 – The Shipping Forecast" (PDF). National Meteorological Library and Archive. 2007. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
↑ The Stage - Mining the seams of radio history
↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Knight, Donald R.; Sabey, Alan D. (1984). The Lion Roars at Wembley. New Barnet: D. R. Knight. ISBN 0-9509251-0-1.
↑ Seatter, Robert (25 March 2016). "The cello and the nightingale". BBC . Retrieved 23 April 2020.
↑ Alberge, Dalya (9 April 2022). "The cello and the nightingale: 1924 duet was faked, BBC admits after years of suspicion". The Guardian . London. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Fact sheet No. 8 – The Shipping Forecast" (PDF). National Meteorological Library and Archive. 2007. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2010.

[2] The Stage - Mining the seams of radio history

[Pocket_On_This_Day-3] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[4] Knight, Donald R.; Sabey, Alan D. (1984). The Lion Roars at Wembley. New Barnet: D. R. Knight. ISBN 0-9509251-0-1.

[5] Seatter, Robert (25 March 2016). "The cello and the nightingale". BBC . Retrieved 23 April 2020.

[6] Alberge, Dalya (9 April 2022). "The cello and the nightingale: 1924 duet was faked, BBC admits after years of suspicion". The Guardian . London. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]